From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to ‘Bridgerton’: How Shonda Rhimes Is Building Shondaland Into a Media Powerhouse

wild boar who was found chilling on her sofa. The unnamed woman said she opened her living room door to find the huge animal relaxing inside her home in Hagen, Germany on February 4.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterWendy Williams is denying accusations about the state of her mental health following her bank Wells Fargo freezing her accounts and requesting a hearing from the New York Supreme Court to determine whether the TV personality, who has been on hiatus from “The Wendy Williams Show” since July 2021 due to health complications, is an “incapacitated person” who needs a temporary guardianship.“On behalf of Wendy Hunter, professionally known as Wendy Williams, as counsel to her and her affairs, Wendy wants the world to know that she strenuously denies all allegations about her mental health and well-being,” Williams’ attorney, LaShawn Thomas, said in a statement provided by publicist Shawn Zanotti to Variety Monday. “During this hiatus from the show, Wendy has employed holistic health professionals to help her reach optimal health during her treatment of Graves’ disease and thyroid concerns.” As Variety reported last week, Williams will not be returning to her daytime talk show this season, and the future of her show remains in flux.

Kanye West and Pete Davidson.The tale of the world's richest rapper and the comedian exploded online as Kanye released leaked messages between the two, in which less than friendly terms were used to say the least, Kanye branding Pete a "d***head".Pete and Kayne's estranged wife Kim Kardashian are believed to have been dating since October 2021 and it now appears that Kanye does not appear to be taking kindly to their newfound romance.Pete appears to have made an attempt to mend the rift, but did so without success.So what was said and how did the row escalate?Rapper Kanye went public with his seeming dislike for Pete in a series of Instagram posts.A 13-post rant included a vow from the 44-year-old rapper that Davidson would never be allowed to meet his children.Kanye and Kim had four children together - North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm, who are eight, six, four and two respectively.Ye shared a text from Davidson that read: "As a man I'd never get in the way of your children. That's a promise.

WhatsApp look just like something out of the sci-fi series Blade Runner, thanks to the arrival of a long-awaited new interface for the popular encrypted messaging app.You'll soon be able to get your hands on WhatsApp's long-awaited 'dark mode'. Like 'dark mode' on Messenger or Android, it darkens all aspects of the user interface to make things look more stylish and easier on the eyes.The new feature, which is currently on offer to beta testers, should one day become available to all WhatsApp users and can be tried out on a number of different platforms.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, the commercial arm of U.K. broadcaster BBC, has promoted Rebecca Glashow to the newly created role of CEO, global distribution.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has long defied his elderly status in the game of snooker, and he's not the only one in the family still able to mix it with the younger generation.However, his father, Ronnie senior, isn't so much enjoying himself around a table but out on the open road, having moved into a motorhome with a woman 12 years younger than his son.The 67-year-old has been dating Tiffany Kushner, 34, who founded superfood brand Chaga Life, and in July the pair duly decided they were so bored with current life that it was time to invest in a £94,000 Mercedes vehicle.And Kushner has now taken to Facebook to post some video clips of the couple's road trips, explaining they had found 'comfortable living' tedious. Indeed, the pair seemed to be enjoying their new venture as they danced away to the Toploader song Dancing in the Moonlight.Their pet dog has also been taken along for the ride.She added “It’s the best decision we have ever made, letting go of that myth that owning property and possessions is seen as achieving something.“All there is to life is to be lived.

OnlyFans. Allie Rae left her $84,000 a year nursing job after her colleagues and boss discovered her OnlyFans account where subscribers paid her a monthly fee to access raunchy photos and videos.

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Game on! Eminem, Kanye West and more celebrities watched with their kids as the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2022 Super Bowl.

William Earl PR veteran Alyssa Schimel has been tapped to help run PR and marketing efforts for Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix-based production operation.Separately, Marco Esquivel has been upped to vice president of creative content.Schimel will serve as vice president of communications and marketing for the company. She’ll steer marketing strategies for all content produced by Shondaland, including ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Station 19,” as well as the growing roster of Netflix series including the upcoming Season 2 of “Bridgerton” and the anticipated limited series “Inventing Anna” in February.

Shonda Rhimes doesn't know how will end, but she's had a few ideas. In an interview with , the 51-year-old creator of the medical drama series reveals that she has written and rewritten the ending of several times.«I’ve written the end of that series, I want to say, a good eight times,» she says.

Shonda Rhimes recently discussed the eventual ending of the hit medical drama series Grey's Anatomy during an interview with Variety.During the sit-down, the 51-year-old producer spoke about various aspects of the long-running ABC show, which is currently in its 18th season.The showrunner also devoted much of the discussion to the conclusion of the program, and she noted that she has revised the ending on several occasions.

Meredith Grey’s future remains unwritten. Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes revealed that she has plotted many endings to the long running ABC medical drama — but not a single one served as the series finale.

Kate Aurthur editorShonda Rhimes knows what she wishes the legacy of “Grey’s Anatomy” would be.“The number of women who have become doctors because of that show is magical to me,” she says, sounding pleased during a recent interview for Variety’s Show Woman of the Year issue.

Shonda Rhimes is opening up about Rege Jean Page‘s decision to leave Bridgerton.

would not be reprising his role as the dashing Duke of Hastings in the show’s second season, fans weren’t happy. However, Rhimes, 51, admitted she’s perfectly fine with the British actor’s decision.

Shonda Rhimes shared her true feelings about Regé-Jean Page‘s exit from Bridgerton in a recent interview, revealing how surprised she actually was at the fan furor after Netflix announced his departure from the series. “I don’t think I expected everybody to have such a reaction to it,” the showrunner shared with Variety in their latest cover story. “My assumption of what people knew of romance novels was … I overestimated a great deal.”

Shonda Rhimes is opening up on the future of her hit Netflix series Bridgerton.The 51-year-old producer, speaking with Variety Wednesday, said that she can see the series - which has been renewed through a fourth season - to continue to thrive based on the characters and potential storylines.'There are eight Bridgerton siblings, and as far as I’m concerned, there are eight Bridgerton seasons,' she told the outlet. 'And maybe more.' The latest:Shonda Rhimes, 51, opened up on the future of her hit Netflix series Bridgerton Wednesday, as shesaid that she can see the series to continue to thrive based on the characters and potential storylines.

Shonda Rhimes has launched TV superstars before — such as the entire cast of “Grey’s Anatomy,” led by Ellen Pompeo. But even she was caught off guard by the uproar earlier this year when Netflix and her company Shondaland announced that Regé-Jean Page, everyone’s favorite duke, was leaving “Bridgerton” behind, and wouldn’t be appearing in the show’s second season.“What I loved was we were going to create this powerful, exciting, amazing romance,” Rhimes says of the relationship between Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings (Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor).

Shonda Rhimes‘ highly-anticipated new series Inventing Anna has a premiere date!

Kate Aurthur editor“Inventing Anna” — the first show Shonda Rhimes has written for Netflix, and the first show she’s created since “Scandal” made its debut in 2012 — will premiere in February.“Inventing Anna” follows the massive success of “Bridgerton,” which Rhimes and her company Shondaland executive produced.